On a rainy night in the third year of Yongyuan, the fourteen-year-old puppet emperor Liu Zhao woke up from a nightmare. The palace was as deep as a tomb, and the only light for him was the Zhongchang attendant Zheng Zhong standing beside him.
He gave him trust and he offered his loyalty. From the young master and servant who depended on each other for life, to the life and death alliance that plotted to kill Dou. He personally supported him to the top of power, granted him the title of marquis, held an official position for a long time, and became an unprecedented eunuch and powerful minister.
However, as the throne gradually stabilizes, suspicion gradually arises. When dependence becomes a weakness, when loyalty is seen as a threat, the oaths once made become mottled and shattered under the erosion of power.
He is the sharpest blade in his hand and the thorn in his heart that cannot be removed. He used all his imperial skills to test, humiliate, and control her, but he just wanted to find the unique attachment of the past in those eternally silent eyes.
It wasn't until Zheng Zhong was sick and his bones were torn apart and he refused to close his eyes in front of him that Liu Zhao caught a glimpse of the truth in the relics - the infatuation that was so deeply hidden that it was twisted until death.
It turns out that it was not him who trapped him in this obsessive entanglement between the king and his subjects for half their lives, but they were sinking into this endless hell together.
Alone and alone, he finally became a real emperor.
And the person who once illuminated his dark years will never come back.
Concept: In a totalitarian prison, a forbidden love begins with mutual dependence and ends with mutual destruction.